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Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
12 DVDs (1,363 min.) : sound, black and white with some color sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 books (128 pages : chiefly black and white photographs ; 31 cm)
Language
English
Description
Sunrise: A sophisticated urban woman seduces a farmer in the hopes that he will murder his neglected wife and join her in the city, but he soon finds himself rekindling his romance with the latter when she discovers their scheme.
City girl: A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.
Lazybones: Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing...
4) Nosferatu
Author
Language
English
Description
An unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Nosferatu is the quintessential silent vampire film, crafted by legendary German director F. W. Murnau (Sunrise, Faust, The Last Laugh). Rather than depicting Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau's Graf Orlok (as portrayed by Max Schreck) is a nightmarish, spidery creature of bulbous head and taloned claws -- perhaps the most genuinely disturbing incarnation of vampirism...
Author
Language
English
Description
One of the crowning achievements of the German expressionist movement, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's The Last Laugh (Der letzte Mann) stars Emil Jannings stars as an aging doorman whose happiness crumbles when he is relieved of the duties and uniform which had for years been the foundation of his happiness and pride. Through Jannings's colossal performance, The Last Laugh becomes more than the plight of a single doorman, but a mournful dramatization...
7) Tabu
Series
Publisher
Milestone Film & Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two lovers are doomed by a tribal edict decreeing that the girl is "tabu" to all men.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a hotel doorman who is demoted to washroom attendant because of his age. Humiliated, he considers suicide. Then he experiences a strange twist of fate. This silent film is told entirely by camera, without title cards.
9) Faust
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
Classic tale of a man who sells his soul to the devil, based on Goethe, Marlowe, and folk sagas.
Publisher
Transit Film
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Restored authorized ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
Rather than depict Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau's Graf Orlok is a nightmarish, spidery creature with a bulbous head and taloned claws. This is perhaps the most genuinely disturbing incarnation of vampirism.
11) Faust
Author
Language
Silent
Description
A tale of the battle between good and evil, in which Faust sells his soul to Mephistopheles. From the play by Johann Wolfgang Goeth. Score compiled from historic photoplay music by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra.
12) Tartuffe
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (63 min.) : silent, color tint ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A religious hypocrite insinuates himself into a wealthy Parisian family.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
2-disc deluxe remastered edition.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (95 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
The quintessential silent vampire film, crafted by legendary German director F. W. Murnau. Rather than depicting Dracula as a shape-shifting monster or debonair gentleman, Murnau's Graf Orlok is a nightmarish, spidery creature of bulbous head and taloned claws, perhaps the most genuinely disturbing incarnation of vampirism yet envisioned. Features two versions of the film, the original German intertitles (with optional English subtitles) or English...
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
[Blu-ray/DVD combo ed.].
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
A naive country man falls for a cold-blooded city woman who persuades him to drown his wife in order to be with her.
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (159 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
None
Description
The haunted castle: In the castle Vogeloed, a few aristocrats are awaiting baroness Safferstätt. But first count Oetsch invites himself.. Everyone thinks he murdered his brother, baroness Safferstat's first husband, three years ago. So he is rather undesirable. But Oetsch stays; arguing he is not the murderer and will find the real one...
Finances of the Grand Duke: The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money...
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Restored authorized edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (81 min.) : sound, black and white (tinted) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A hunting party is interrupted by the arrival of a notorious count, who is believed to have murdered his brother. The uninvited guest sets in motion an elaborate plot to resurrect the ghosts of the past and bring secrets of his brother's death to light.
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The Oyster Princess: a comedy in which a pampered American oyster tycoon plans to find a prince to marry his much-indulged daughter, but things don't go his way. I don't wanna be a man: while her father is away, a teenage tomboy impersonates a man in this gender-bending absurdist comedy.
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
[Fullscreen].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (2 hr. 53 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The doll: when an effete young man must marry to inherit a fortune, he purchases a lifelike doll to wed.
Ernst Lubitsch in Berlin: documents the life of the filmmaker from his birth in 1892 to his departure for Hollywood in 1923. Includes interviews and footage from his films.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Restored authorized edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Story is set in medieval Prague. The Rabbi gives life to the Golem who falls in love with the Rabbi's daughter and brings fear to the emperor's court. He is destroyed by an innocent child. Based on the legend of the Golem, a popular figure in Jewish tradition.
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